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Welcome

  • Introduction
  • Postman collection

Quickstart

  • Overview
  • 1. Signing into Bond Portal
  • 2. Getting your API key
  • 3. Creating a customer
  • 4. Performing KYC
  • 5. Creating a card
  • 6. Linking an external account to a card
  • 7. Funding a card
  • 8. Making a sample purchase

Bond Portal

  • Overview
  • Developers
    • Get started
    • API keys
    • Webhooks
    • Logs
  • Transactions

Resources

  • Overview
  • Customers
  • Businesses
  • Cards
  • Know your customer
  • Card program ID
  • Transactions
  • Accounts
  • Webhooks

Customer onboarding

  • Customer onboarding overview
  • Creating a customer
    • Managing customers
    • Managing customer addresses
  • Running KYC
    • Uploading KYC documentation

Business onboarding

  • Business onboarding overview
  • Creating a business
    • Managing Businesses
    • Managing business addresses
  • Creating Beneficial Owners
    • Managing Beneficial Owners
    • Managing beneficial owner addresses
  • Verifying Beneficial Owners
    • Uploading Beneficial Owner documentation
  • Running KYB

Cards

  • Creating a card
  • Creating a business card
  • Creating a supplementary card
  • PCI data rendering
    • Instructions: Retrieving & displaying card details
    • Instructions: Setting a PIN
    • Instructions: Copy data
  • Managing cards
    • Retrieving profile information
    • Changing the card status
    • Changing the limit on a card
    • Reissuing a card
    • Setting card restrictions
    • Closing a card account

Credit accounts

  • Building Consumer Secured Charge Cards

Linking External Bank Accounts

  • Guide to linking external accounts
  • Linking external accounts SDK
    • Managing external accounts
  • Retrieving external account history
  • Linking an external account without the Bond SDK

Transfers

  • Account transfers overview
    • Making a card-to-card transfer
  • ACH transfers
    • Making an ACH transfer
    • ACH return codes

Transactions

  • Transactions
  • Transaction lifecycle
  • Transaction states
  • Retrieving transactions
  • Payment types
    • Transaction types
  • MCC codes
  • Retrieving account balances

Webhooks

  • Webhook events and subscriptions
    • Managing subscriptions
    • Webhook payloads
  • Accepting webhook requests

Sandbox

  • Overview and getting started
  • Sandbox vs Production
  • Simulating a card authorization
  • Simulating settlement
  • Testing webhooks
  • Triggering KYC Scenarios

Reference information

  • API headers
  • Errors
    • Error types
    • Error codes
    • Error code dictionary
    • Error statuses
    • Error examples
  • Using Postman Collections
  • Web SDK Documentation
  • Glossary

Bond university

  • Introduction
  • Identity Verification
  • Cards Basics
  • Moving Money on a Card
  • Customer Service and Dispute Resolution
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8. Making a sample purchase

How does your customer make their first purchase.

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Once you have completed the steps in this Quickstart Guide section, your customer can now make purchases using their card.

To test making a purchase using Bond's Sandbox. You can also simulate a sample purchase.

Updated over 3 years ago


Next Steps
  • Bond Studio resources